Getting the Facts Straight: 33 Common Beliefs That Are Actually Untrue

Also, a detox is something that drug addicts and alcoholics require to safely stop using their substance, not people drinking weight loss smoothies.

There is a certain amount of urea in sweat, so this isn't strictly true

Those goofy pads you stick to the bottom of your feet that are supposed to 'detox' your body. They do nothing. Instead of the body's toxins being absorbed, detox foot pads turn black as a result of a chemical reaction between the ingredients of the pad and moisture from the feet. They are a total waste of money.

"These components are composed primarily of water but also small amounts of minerals (such as sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium), metabolites (such as lactate, ammonia, and urea), and unmetabolized pharmaceutical drugs." Int J Environ Res Public Health.

So where do they remove them to or do they just absorb them?

"The idea that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat is a canard invented in the Early Modern Period by authors who wanted to portray the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness and superstitious regression. There really was a time when people did believe that the earth was flat, but it was long, long before the Middle Ages. Prior to around 500 BC or thereabouts, it seems most people believed that the earth was flat like a table and that the sky was a dome covering it. This, for instance, seems to have been the worldview of the ancient Sumerians and other early Mesopotamians, the pharaonic Egyptians, and the authors of the Hebrew Bible. The early Greeks believed that the earth was flat too. The prevailing view among the early Greeks seems to have been that the earth was disc-shaped "

I've thought about this, and I guess it doesn't really matter if that's what they believe, as long as they aren't working for NASA.

And the Indians even before. They made a rough guess and put it in various religious texts. Then calculated it around the same time as the Greeks. Not to mention quite a few other ancient civilizations did it too.

Church is the reason middle ages were so dark and lost from culture and education. Minute education was general, Church lost all followers. Thanks for 2000years of dark brainwashing

If Earth were flat, spilled milk wouldn’t go anywhere.

Movies are like..Oh, well! Come back when they're dead.

Unfortunately the response to a missing person seemingly often depends on how pretty or close to societal norms the missing person is, last year there was a case in northern England of a 30 something year old mother who went missing whilst walking her dog near a river, the case was all over tv news, radio and newspapers just a couple of hours after she was last seen where it stayed for a couple of weeks, during the same time the sister in law of the actor that played Gareth in the uk version of the office also went missing if memory serves she had learning difficulties and wasn’t as traditionally pretty as the other lady and she received a few column inches on newspaper websites and that was all. Same with madeleine McCann many children go missing every year but the cute blonde girl from well to do and affluent parents is still receiving money to search and media attention some 15-20 years later

Teenagers are normally not given as much attention because they runaway so often over 90% of the time they're runaways and will return in 2 days

Each police department can have their own policy on how missing persons are handled.

You can file a report, but it's not said that they immediately will take action

The reason people had so many children was because of the amount of children who died

Women died because of child birth. It wasn't uncommon that they both died if there was major complications. Cesarean operation was not an option in those times.

Life expectancy at birth was around 40 or so. However, that was because so infant and juvenile mortality was so high. Life expectancy at the age of 20 was another 40-50 years. That being said, people at 70 were considered to be really old, and were more fragile that 70 year olds today, especially among urban populations, where air and water were polluted, and fresh fruit and vegetables could be expensive of non-existent for much of the year. People of the middle and upper class rural populations were healthier for longer. Of course, dental issues also shortened lives.

The Bible wouldn't have said "threescore years and ten" if everyone was joining the choir invisible at 35...

I do genealogy and most of my ancestors lived into their 70's and 80's. It's the modern part of the tree that is dying younger.

Remember, if you need to use CPR, the victim is dead, you can't kill him/her more, the worst thing that you can do is nothing. And it's normal if some ribs are broken during CPR, if the victim survives, it will heal, but if you don't do anything, it doesn't matter if he/she has intact ribs.

The brain only needs 25-30% of the usual oxygen intake to stay alive, so even if the person isn't conscious there is no reason to stop CPR

In the TV they always restart the heart with a defibrillator if it the monitor shows no heart activity. You can't use the defibrillator if there is nothing happening. You should continue CPR in hopes that medication will save the day.

Tell that to Damar Hamlin that CPR us unsuccessful, saved his life on that football field that night

Thanks!

Highly processed carbs, breads, cereal, white sugar, etc. are easy to eat in volume, calorically dense, and extremely easy to digest, and thus you get a lot of calorie input, but not very much nutrition, for very little effort. THAT is the problem, not the fact that they are “carbs”. Whole grains and fruit provide the carbohydrates your body NEEDS to survive as well as fiber and micronutrients. Processed foods make you fat, whether it’s a donut or a hotdog.

There is no magic rule for everyone. Some people can eat all the carbs they want and have no weight issues. Some people can't - those people may respond better to a ketogenic diet with very few carbohydrates. Perhaps we shouldn't make blanket statements. Read "The Case for Keto" by Gary Taubes, or read accounts of people who live a ketogenic lifestyle. We're all different and should give our bodies the nutrients they want.

Yummy looking bagels.

Carbs, the unprocessed ones or as unprocessed as they can be, are in fact very good for you. Potatoes (as long as you don’t have a food intolerance to them) are a healthy option as long as you don’t fry them in oil or drown them in butter.

This isn’t quite correct

There are "alpha" human males. Alpha in the software development sense - a crude prototype with many bugs to fix and some important features missing.

Ugh...."alpha guys," just get rid of the whole lot of em.

5th time on BP in the past week?

On the other hand, baboons do have such a structure.